Fighter101 video tutorials, PLinking, Kara Throws and more

I was going to create written guides for all this, but Fighter101 knows their stuff.

Im so glad I got myself a stick and learned plinking. It changed my game and opened up new character options. Tough road, but worthwhile. Good vids, worthwhile for anybody who legitimately wants to improve their game or is new to using a stick.

I never understood plinking. I just don't see how it's worthwhile, it looks like he's doing more work than needed for those simple links. All of the things he's plinking in the video are easy to do by themselves & there's really nothing in the game that's THAT difficult to link anyway it's all about timing in pressing the button & in the worst case scenario just double tap.

Kara throws I understand because they actually increase your throw range. Plinking supposedly opens the link window to make it easier even though it's really not necessary. I certainly don't have that much trouble with links, even 1 frame links can be mastered through good timing & practice.

#3: Sure you could time combos without plinking but it's more strict. Plinking gives you another opportunity for the input to register if you miss the timing. What's so hard to understand about that?

in some cases plinks are very usefull, such as 1 frame links that vega and cammy have.

That it takes more work to plink something than to genuinely learn the link itself. None of the links in the game are so impossible that you have to use another method of linking to do them.

If you're good enough to consistently hit 1 frame links without p-linking then more power to you. But even then, you'd still benefit from learning to p-link because you would have even more chances to land those links.

@ Rodeoman

Plinking HELPS out alot. crouching lp into cr. MP is alot easyer with plinking.

Can you upload a sf4 on youtube that you can link combo of 1 fame link that dont drop. thanks because you sounds like a pro. OH by the way. i dont want to see jump hard kick into dragon punch

Oh, and you still need to learn the proper timing for links. It's not like p-linking magically makes you hit 1 frame links 100% of the time.

Just consider plink inputs as EX normals and there's nothing hard about learning them

u should do a vid for double plinking. Normal plink is old stuff man

@rodeoman

I do know what you mean, it does seem like more work, but consider some other advantages.

A friend of mine likes to sell plinking as a "safety net". Say you make the simple switch from Xbox 360 to Playstation 3. The general timing/flow of the game is subtly different by two frames supposedly. Instead of having to adjust, plinking can help you to make the transition easier.

Now, consider the same for moving between different tvs at a lower scale tournament. Maybe the game is only being played on PS3, but you're moving between tvs that are not only most likely different from what you practice on, but are different from each other. Old tube tvs, laggy monitors, and if you're fortunate, lagless monitors.

There's a lot of reasons that you would want to learn something like that, and in the end, it's not that much more work compared to dropping links.

Q: Whats the difference in physical input of a piano roll and a plink? Plinks are closer together? Faster?

@Blankabeast
Plinks are much faster, almost simultaneous.

1 frame windows are like impossible to hit consistently. I don't think there is a human in the world that is actually capable of that. Or if there is, that person is just inhuman and not representative of what the average person is capable of. Especially since the average human is only capable of seeing a bit less than 30 frames a second.

A 2 frame window however, which P-linking is able to make out of a 1 frame link, is something that the average player can in fact hit consistently.

I learned nothing by watching the video

If you learned nothing you truly need some special help there digital lol. Or perhaps you didnt learn a thing because you laready know all these tehcniques?

If so, good for you ;)

Helped me learn the idea, I need to learn option selects and I'll be a small threat for someone... now to find a main... (wow I'm slacking...)

I have a question regarding plinking: When I use Guile, I try to perform c.LK, c. LP, c.MP, and I input the following:

LK
LP
MP, very fastly followed by LP (as it says in the video and a bunch of other ones teaching how to plink). The thing is, sometimes it just comes out as 2x LP instead of LP > MP.
Am I doing something wrong? 'Cause I've noticed that you can press a LP button before a MP button after linking it from the LP before. But how does that make sense?

Just a stupid curiosity, does PLinking make the input like you hit the button on two consecutive frames or just two different frames close to each other?